Next June, California voters may get a chance to change state rules for presidential elections. Republicans are gathering signatures for a measure that would divide the state’s electoral-college votes instead of letting the winner take all. Also tonight, a mistrial in the Phil Spector murder case.

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Next June, California voters may get a chance to change state rules for presidential elections. Republicans are gathering signatures for a measure that would divide the state’s electoral-college votes instead of letting the winner take all. Also tonight, a mistrial in the Phil Spector murder case.

In America’s indirect presidential election system, voters in each state choose representatives to the Electoral College. All except Maine and Nebraska let the winner take all. In California, Republicans are gathering signatures for a ballot measure to change the system by allocating electoral-college votes according to which candidate wins each Congressional district.